Former England rugby captain: 'I feel we are in the shadows of the men'

Catherine Spencer says the women’s game still operates ‘in shadows of the men’ and a radical makeover is neededEven now there are days when Catherine Spencer looks back with a mixture of incredulity and anger. “I felt like a second-class citizen for most of my rugby life,” she says flatly, recalling her time as one of England’s most prominent women’s rugby players. “Even when I did interviews as England captain I felt I was having to say thank you for the smallest things and be overly grateful. I want people now to understand their value.”Spencer, now 40, is no longer playing for her country b…